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OUR STORIES VARIOUS AUTHORS

ANEXO 1

Dirección General

María Luisa Rodríguez

Editores

Alumnos de 4to año 1era división de la EESO N° 428 Luisa Raimondi

de Barreiro

Ilustración

Ilustración de tapa Candela Gencarelli

Ilustración de cuentos los autores de los mismos

Lugar

Rafaela, Pcia. De Santa Fe, Argentina

Fecha

Agosto de 2014

ANEXO 2

Editorial

Colección de cuentos cortos creados o adaptados por alumnos de la

EESO N° 428 Luisa Raimondi de Barreiro como parte de un proyecto

de la clase de Lengua Extranjera II Ingles.

Luego de haber trabajado con los contenidos gramaticales Pretérito

Perfecto Simple y Pasado Continuo, y vocabulario relacionado, y de

haber leído cuentos cortos abreviados, de diversos autores, se les

propone a los alumnos que creen su propia historia de misterio, terror

o romántica.

Se les solicita además que, habiendo optado por la orientación en

artes audiovisuales, ilustren los cuentos.

Este libro es una compilación de esos trabajos que con mucho

empeño, esfuerzo, creatividad y responsabilidad los alumnos crearon.

ANEXO 3

Índice

Horror stories

The abandoned house

…………………………………………..5

Alan and the nightmare …………………………………………..6

He followed her …………………………………………..7

Not alone …………………………………………..8

The thing …………………………………………..9

Country house …………………………………………..10

Horror on the beach …………………………………………..11

The mysterious visitor …………………………………………..12

The dog …………………………………………..13

The nightmare …………………………………………..14

A bad dream …………………………………………..15

Mysterious Algae ………………………………………......16

My old Friend …………………………………………..17

Other stories

Persuasion and more …………………………………………..19

An elevator story …………………………………………..20

Reading Guide

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ANEXO 4

horror stories

ANEXO 5

The abandoned house

Last week Sam and Paul were visiting their grandmother in the north of town.

The moon was shining in a dark night when they saw a girl alone in a big

abandoned house and they went to play there, but something strange happened.

When they arrived at this house, they started to play with her. She said her

name was Pamela and she lived alone because her parents weren’t living there.

After that, while Sam and Paul were walking along the garden, Pamela appeared

between the trees with a black flower for Sam. Paul, terrified, ran to his

grandmother’s house to tell her about the horrible situation. Meanwhile, Sam

continued there. When she received the flower she felt very scared and nervous.

The moment their grandmother arrived at the house she didn’t see Sam. She

could only see only a dress flying in the air, Paul told her that it was Sam’s dress.

Pamela wasn’t there anymore.

ANEXO 6

Alan and the nightmare

A tale by Giraudo Guillermina and Mié Luisina

Alan and his wife, Alice, travelled to the Washington state Mountain town of Bright

Falls for a short vacation, on the advice of Alice and her friend agent Barry Wheeler.

Before arrival, Alan had a nightmare about shadowy figures who tried to harm him

and an ethereal figure that interrupted his dream and taught him how to use light

to fight the shadows.

On their arrival, Alan got the keys and map to their rented cabin, unaware that the

woman supplying the keys wasn’t the landlady. But Alan never got to the cabin. He

regained consciousness a week later, apparently after driving his car off the road.

He had no memory of how he got there.

He started to head back towards town, but his progress was hampered by shadowy

figures that tried to harm him. He remembered his dream and found some papers

of a manuscript scattered about. The manuscript was of a work called “Departure”

with his name as the by-line. But Alan couldn’t remember writing it.

ANEXO 7

He followed her

A tale by Sofía Agnasse, Tamara Mescheller and Axel Trulli

This was in Calchaquín in the early 40’s. The ruins of the Robeledo house had a

new inhabitant: the homeless Louis.

A group of kids used to go to the house every weekend and tell horror stories

without knowing that there was someone, in the other room, that was listening to

everything.

The homeless fixed his eyes on a girl. He liked her. He looked at her all the time.

He looked at her so much that he finally fell in love with her without knowing

anything about her. He was crazy in love with her and started following her. He

was so crazy about the girl that one day he walked into her room just to watch her

sleep from that distance, or what he thought was distant. One n ight she woke up

and started screaming. Louis ran away. When her parents entered the room there

was nobody and no one believed her. Not her boyfriend neither her friends. So she

thought that she was crazy, but this visitor kept appearing in her room every night.

She couldn´t stand it anymore and finally decided to live in peace and left the

house.

The next day, Louis walked into Kelly’s room but he didn’t see her. He walked into

all the house’s rooms but didn’t find anybody. He went back to the Robeledo house

hopping to find her there, but it wasn’t like that.

The next day he heard about her. She killed herself. She had no reasons to live.

With his heart broken and hopeless he decided to follow her one last time…

ANEXO 8

Not alone.

A tale by Emelí Mandrile and Carolina Vergara

I said goodbye when my parents went to Buenos Aires. I was very happy I was

alone at home. I was walking to the kitchen when I heard a strange sound in my

bedroom.

I thought it was my pet, but my cat was sleeping in my bedroom. Suddenly my

heart bumped when I heard the sound of the shower. I realised I was not alone.

ANEXO 9

The thing

A tale by Evelyn Foulkes, Agostina y Lucía Peretti and Victoria Verrelli

All the time I felt observed. When I closed my eyes to wash my face, while I was

walking along that long and dark hallway of my house, even when I slept. There

weren’t many moments that I could enjoy the calm… until it became disturbing

and suspicious. This day I was dreaming of a horrible thing. It was in front my bed

watching me while I slept. Its eyes were two brilliant points different from a shadow.

I woke up at 8:00 a.m and I started my day feeling more paranoiac than ever. In

the office while I was drinking my coffee I felt its eyes looking at me. When I arrived

to my house I decided to rest, and I felt its eyes staring at me. While I was having

a shower … when I was eating…I could feel it over me all the time, it was

unbearable!! And the most curious thing was that I looked to the right, to the left,

I looked down, but there was nothing there! When days were finally over I went to

my bed with the feeling that sleeping was not an option but anyway I closed my

eyes looking at the roof. The feeling was back, and for a strange reason, I decided

to open my eyes. Oh! What a hell of a moment! This!, that thing, was there! On my

roof, with its brilliant eyes on me, just like in my dream.

ANEXO 10

Country House

A tale by Bravo Loana, Martinez Agostina and Quaranta Florencia

My cousin told me that in the house where she lived, strange things happened,

something bad, and my aunt said that since she lives there she didn’t feel quiet

and she was frequently ill. She said that at night she heard noises, scratches on

the wall, dogs howling, and when she went to see she saw a dark figure of a man.

One day my mom and I decided to go on a picnic to my cousin’s house. When we

arrived, the place was beautiful, it was near a lake with lots of vegetation. From the

moment we arrived I felt uncomfortable, as if there would be something in the

environment that I didn´t like. It was early in the evening and I started to feel afraid.

Everyone went inside, I was a bit further behind. I didn’t think twice and ran inside

the house with my family. After a week, they left the house and found out that

other people saw the devil, fire and heard screams, dogs howling and other things.

That house, until today, continues abandoned.

ANEXO 11

Horror on the beach

A tale by Agostina Brusco and Candela Sudano

It was a sunny day and with my family we went to the beach. When we arrived, the

place was full of people and we found a place near the sea.

My children were building sand castles and my wife was sunbathing, so I decided

to walk along the sea coast. While I was walking, I saw that people were scared,

desperate and there was a lot of shouting.

I ran to the mess and saw with my own eyes what was happening there: a child

was being sucked by a big black hole on the sand. The little boy shouted and called

for help, but nobody helped him. Finally, the child fell down into the hole, that each

minute got bigger and bigger. People started to fall down and I fell down, too.

Now I’m here a long time ago and I’m waiting to return with my family in another

world. But I’m also waiting for you.

ANEXO 12

The mysterious visitor

A tale by Delfina Alassia, Donatella Delfabro and Trinidad Pignatta

It was a summer night at the hospital and there were a lot of people. One woman

entered Peter’s room with flowers and chocolate. Peter did not know who she was.

He asked her name and she said: I am Anna Smith.

Peter: - “Thank you very much for the gift, Anna” while she disappeared. Peter,

scared, called the nurse.

Nurse: what’s up?

Peter: A Mrs Anna Smith was here. Do you know who she is?

Nurse: Anna smith?! (said the nurse surprised)

Peter: Yes, Yes!

Nurse: Mrs Anna Smith died in this room in 1942!

ANEXO 13

The Dog

A tale obtained at

http://muchosmisterios.blogspot.com.ar/2009/09/historia-de-terror-la-nina-y-el-perro.html and translated by

Victoria Hessel

This happened in a small town in Belarus and was in all the local newspapers.

A 13 year-old girl, the only child of parents of great influence, had everything a girl

wanted, but with unparalleled solitude. Her parents used to go to parties and

charity events and left her alone. Everything changed when they bought a puppy.

Time passed and the girl and the dog became inseparable. The dog always slept

under her bed. One night, while her parents were having dinner with friends, the

girl went to sleep with her dog under the bed. She was sleeping when a loud noise

woke her up. She felt scratches in her arm. She fearfully reached down for the dog

to lick her arm, it was like a code between her and the dog. She calmed down and

fell asleep again.

When she woke up in the early morning she discovered something frightening. In

the bathroom mirror there was a message written in blood that said: “Not only dogs

lick” and she uttered a cry of terror on seeing her dog crucified on the floor of her

room.

It is said that when her parents entered her room she was totally upset and just

saying: “Who licked me?”

The whereabouts of this girl are not understood, and the dog’s body was intact

there in the room, like a sculpture time cannot change.

It is said that when the girl returned from hospital the dog began to deteriorate to

be nothing more than dust.

They also say it is the beginning of a new era of evil.

ANEXO 14

The nightmare

A tale adapted by Tomas Chaparro, Luciano Romero, Tomás Sola.

Again three in the morning. Why is it that I always wake up at that hour? It’s a

habit impossible to break since I’m not the one who decided to wake up at that

particular time. As always, I heard noises downstairs in the living room (my room

was upstairs), but this time I decided not to ignore them as I used to. I took courage

and decided to go down. Obviously everything was dark, but, with difficulty I

distinguished two red dots at the back of the room. I tried to find the light switch

but I couldn’t. I was shaking. Those two points could be anything but for some

reason I was scared. I gathered all the courage that was possible and I walked a

few steps. When I managed to distinguish what bothered me so much, I could see

those red dots were two red eyes, eyes of the strangest creature I had ever seen. I

tried to run away but fear paralysed me, leaving me there, still and vulnerable. The

creature started curling around my weak body with so much force that took my

breath away. I didn’t want to die. I still had the strength to think that this was not

a nightmare because the pain was real. Why? Those were my last words, I was

dying.

- Tito, Tito, wake up! It’s the fifth time I try to open your eyes. You are going to be

late for school.

With difficulty I opened my eyes. It was all a dream, a nightmare. I tried to sit up,

but I could feel a terrible pain in my body. Something in my wrists caught my

attention. There were two red dots of blood. At that point I realised it was true, It

wasn’t a dream. It was a nightmare created to torment me until my last breath,

something endless

ANEXO 15

A bad dream

A tale by Valeria Díaz and Dana Gomez

When I finished my lunch, I went to bed. While I was sleeping I heard a noise in

the next room. I woke up and called my cat, but it wasn’t there. I thought it was a

joke. I was nervous. I went to the kitchen and while I was walking, I heard someone

crying. I went outside and I saw a little girl in the garden. She had long hair and I

couldn’t see her eyes. I was really scared. I took my phone and when I was calling

the police she came to me.

I ran and opened the door. While I was going upstairs, she followed me. I stopped

and asked her: “What do you want?” While I was looking at her, she walked to the

hall. I went to the bathroom and started to cry. While I was looking at myself in the

mirror I heard a scream. The girl was in the corner of the bathroom. “Go away!” I

said. I woke up. It was all a nightmare.

ANEXO 16

Mysterious algae

A tale by Sol Biolatto and Camila Previotto

Mary lived in the countryside, by an abandoned lake. She worked with professional

swimming pools, to get away from the city, she practiced every morning on the lake.

One day she was surprised to see that the water was moving, so she decided to dive

and see what was happening.

When she got to the bottom of the lake she only saw a couple of algae, but when she

observed carefully she saw that they were not what they seemed. Two red eyes were

looking at her, with sharp teeth and big tentacles. She screamed for help, but nobody

heard. She tried to escape but she could not, she was getting out of air. The monster

was slowly killing her.

It took her to the depths of the lake and little by little it was devouring her, the blood

gushed to the surface but nobody noticed. They never found her body.

A month later her parents lost hope of finding her.

ANEXO 17

MY OLD FRIEND

A tale by Simon Perotti and Carlos Sanchez

It was a rainy night and I was watching a horror movie, when I heard a knock, knock at

the door.

- Who it is? - I asked

- …

- Who it is? - I asked again

- …

I got up the couch and I opened the door, but I didn´t see anything.

I went back to the couch and there I saw, I saw my old friend. The strange thing is that

she died two years ago. In this house!

ANEXO 18

OTHER STORIES

ANEXO 19

Persuasion and much more

A tale by Mateo Del Erba

Some time ago, there was a boy named Don. He was going to school one day and

when he was inside, he found an apple tied to an invisible nose, moving through

the corridor. He followed the fruit until he collided with two employees. They were

poor and they proposed to him the chance to be an actor to help them win a

competition and obtain some money. He wanted to be famous, important and rich.

His family was poor too. It was obvious he couldn’t leave his family, it was not easy,

but he wanted to be an important person more than anything in the world, more

than his family and his friends. So he went to New York with the two men to

participate in castings for fabulous movies. He triumphed. Don’s father was a

scientist and Don thought his wealth could help his father to have a better

laboratory to finally invent the invisibility formula. But when he became famous

and spoiled by people, he forgot his old life and about his family. He only thought

of money.

One day his family went to Hollywood to

visit him, but he rejected them, as

strangers. He became too greedy. Until one

day the two poor men he found at school,

they were businessmen now, told him they

were leaving and wanted their money. A

terrible fight started and the boy left the

studio with no money. He was poor and

alone. Walking in the winter rain he ran

into a man singing a song of not having

anyone, love or money. That reminded him

of old Don. He looked for somebody to help

him. He returned to his family, asking his

family for forgiveness and returned to his

normal life with his family and friends.

ANEXO 20

An elevator story

A tale by Daiana Albanessi

Lea walked into the lobby of her apartment building in Brooks East side and walked

to the elevator. Though she usually walked the eight flights of stairs up to her

apartment, she was exhausted after a long day of work and felt that she could

forget her exercise just this once.

She pressed the eighth floor button. A few moments later a hand stopped the door

from closing completely and a man rushed in, out of breath. He hit the eighth

button, unaware the Lead was heading the same floor too. The man smiled at her,

then put his earphones and became immerse in his own world.

The ride went on silently form a moment before the elevator stopped slowly, groaned

and became stuck. Lea sighed.

“I knew I should have taken the stairs”, she thought to herself. The man pulled one

earbud out and looked at her. “Is it stuck?”, he asked. Lea nodded. The stranger

hit the emergency button. “Looks like we are going to be here for a while”, he said.

A few minutes passed. Lea wondered how long it would be until the repairmen came

to get them out of the elevator. She was nervous, especially around attractive men.

And the man standing next to her, certainly was. She looked over at him. He was

a tall man, probably a year older that her, with short brown hair. Also brown were

his shoes. He was wearing and a t-shirt. “So simple and so fit”, she said to herself.

His hands were holding a briefcase. He suddenly looked away and started tapping

madly on his phone before looking at her again. His eyes were of an endless green

with a little bit of brow. “Well”, he said, “I don’t have any service so it looks like we

might be here for a while”. Lea nodded. “I’m Stephen, by the way”, he added,

“Stephen

McKinnon”. He

smiled and one

corner of his mouth

turned upwards. Lea

smiled back. “Lea

Beck”. He continued

to smile. “Pleasure to

be stuck here with

you”.

ANEXO 0

READING GUIDE

ANEXO 1

OUR STORIES reading guide

The abandoned house.

a. Who are the people in the story?

b. When did this story happen?

c. Who were the children visiting?

d. Why was Paul terrified?

e. Whose dress was flying in the air when grandma

arrived?

Alan and the nightmare.

a. How did Alan’s dream help him in real life?

He followed her.

a. How did Louis feel about the girl? Why?

b. Where did Louis follow the girl for the last time?

Not alone.

a. Why was this person alone?

b. What made this person realise she was not alone?

The thing.

a. When did this person feel observed?

b. What could this person see on the ceiling?

Country house

a. Why were this person and her mother in this house?

b. Why is the house still abandoned?

Horror on the beach.

a. What was his family doing when he decided to go for a walk?

b. What did he see on the beach?

c. Where is he now?

d. What is going to happen?

The mysterious visitor

a. Where was Peter?

b. Who visited him?

c. Why was the nurse surprised?

ANEXO 2

The dog

a. Was this a united family?

b. Who was the girl’s best friend?

c. What happened one morning?

d. Where is the girl now?

The nightmare

a) What time did Tito wake up? Why?

b) What did he see?

c) Was is a nightmare?

A bad dream

a. Why was this person nervous?

b. What did he see? What was “it” like?

c. What happened when he shouted “go away”?

Mysterious algae

a. What did Mary do to relax and escape from city stress?

b. What called her attention in the lake?

c. What did she find in the bottom of the lake?

d. Are the family still looking for her?

My old friend.

a. What was the weather like?

b. What was he doing?

c. Who did he see sitting in the couch?

d. Why was that strange?

Persuasion and much more

a. Why did Don accept the poor men’s proposal?

b. How did he change?

c. Who did he go to when he felt alone and poor again?

ANEXO 3

An elevator story

a. Why didn’t Lea go up the stairs as she usually did?

b. What was the boy like?

c. What happened?

d. What do you think is going to happen?